A 34-year-old man hoping to evade the attendant harsh economic conditions by trafficking in cocaine has been apprehended by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement...
The photo of the main suspect involved in the New Year’s Eve attack on a popular nightclub in Istanbul which claimed the lives of 39 people...
The Federal Government has not dropped the corruption charge it prepared against Supreme Court Justice, John Inyang Okoro, but was rather working to consolidate the charges...
The Nigerian community in South Africa and beyond were left in awe and anger after a cop attached to the Metropolitan Police in Cape Town suffocated...
By Reuben Abati … I thoroughly enjoyed reading Pius Adesanmi’s “A Nigerian, Library and Lawmakers” (Sahara Reporters, December 24). I will like to add a footnote...
Ahead 2019 presidential election, Jigawa State former Governor Alhaji Sule Lamido, has vowed that he would never allow himself to be cowed by those in power...
Even as President Muhammadu Buhari continues to remain silent on the killings of southern Kaduna indigenes by suspected Fulani herdsmen, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad...
The federal government (FG) says it has began the payment of N5, 000 monthly stipends to the poorest and the most vulnerable in the country through...
The names of the All Progressives Congress members in the South-East geopolitical zone are missing from the records of the party, THE PUNCH learnt on Monday....
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said, yesterday that the Federal Government has only paid N20 billion, out of the N500 billion budgeted as fuel price increase...
By the end of this year, the Federal Government would have spent, at least, N14.35 billion on the up-keep of former presidents, vice presidents and their...
Manchester City Manager Pep Guardiola has reiterated that his side are not in Premier League title race this season even after his side defeated Burnley FC...
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) doubts the sincerity of purpose behind the recent romance between former President Olusegun Obasanjo...
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has said his team couldn’t have played better than they did on Monday against Sunderland, having played against Manchester City only two...
Heavily armed policemen Monday stormed the Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Research and Training Mambayya House Kano and disrupted an event organized by Kwankwasiyya Foundation, Daily...
More tales of woes visited the Nigerian aviation sector in the month of December 2016 as fuel scarcity and turbulent harmatan haze led to disruption of...
Brazil’s overcrowded penitentiary system experienced serious blood letting when no less than 60 inmates were feared dead in riot sparked by a war between rival drug...
The National Pension Commission has said its management would not risk investing pension funds in any sector due to insincerity plaguing the system. This is in...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group has advised Biafran separatists both at home and in diaspora to be prepared for a referendum to decide whether...
Pregnant women are usallly at crossroads as to what to eat most times. It’s good news to be pregnant most times but it is usually better...
The House of Representatives moved into 2017 with a backlog of 499 bills still far from hitting the third reading mark, The PUNCH learnt on Sunday....
Just like Governor Nasir El-Rufai, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Kaduna State chapter, has attributed the killings in southern Kaduna on reprisal attacks...
Just as Nigerians, especially the people of North East celebrate the success so far recorded by the Nigerian Army in rooting out Boko Haram and its...
President Muhammadu Buhari needs to consult church leaders and eminent men of God to advise him and tell him the truth about the economy. This is...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike’s statement that leaders and people of the Niger Delta will always strive to defend the unity of Nigeria, may have dealt...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari, brought the present economic meltdown in the country through his bad policies. It therefore suggested...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State has described last week’s swearing in of council chairmen and councillors for the 17 local government areas (LGAs)...
They say that there are good guys out there, but sadly there are a lot of not so good ones too. Mr Wrong, though, can be...
Brazilian police investigating the murder of Greek ambassador to the country Kyriakos Amiridis have established the fact that the envoy was killed by his wife’s lover...
The police in Turkey has launched a manhunt for a gunman who attacked a nightclub in Istanbul killing no less than 39 people in the crowded...
The daughter of Choi Soon-sil, friend of South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been arrested by Danish police. Choi’s daughter, Chung Yoo-ra was arrested for her...
Luck ran out for a member of a notorious robbery gang terrorising students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, after he was nabbed by...
Twitter executive exodus continues as Kathy Chen, head of its business in China has quit her post. Her exit comes after CTO Adam Messinger and COO...
Nigerian equities closed 2016 with a net capital loss of N604 billion in spite of a strong last-month rally in December that saw equities rallying N558...
Over N534 billion in revenue was lost by the power sector in 2016, according to the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). Among the reasons for the...
Election into the Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo will hold between January 6 and 9. The outgoing leadership of the organisation, led by Professor Enwo Gary...
Days after the media was awash with news that Pastor Mathew Ashimolowo and his 12,000-member church in Britain, Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC) lost the sum...
Even after commending the Nigerian government and Army for its recent feat against the terrorist group Boko Haram, by capturing its Sambisa Forest stronghold, the opposition...
Defiant President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh has declared while delivering a New Year’s speech that he is ready to defend his country against external aggression after...
In what appears a co-ordinated response to President Buhari’s unclear intention in the Niger Delta, the Chief Edwin Clark-led Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) on new...
Goals from Olivier Giroud in the first half and Alex Iwobi in the last 45 minutes spurred Arsenal to a comfortable 2-0 win against Crystal Palace...
Thousands of Nigerian pensioners were denied their payments during the Yuletide period due to CBN’s misunderstanding with commercial banks over non acceptance of biometric exercise carried...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s avowed intention to continue to pursue peace initiatives in the Niger Delta may have received a blow as the Movement for the Emancipation...
By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo..Long before the 2015 election, I met a Facebook friend, Emeka Nwokeocha, in New York City. It was at a time when former President...
An Illinois law is proving a thorn in Facebook’s side as a class action lawsuit, alleging mishandling of biometric information, moves toward trial. The latest developments...
A Brazilian police officer Sergio Gomes Moreira Filho has confessed he killed Greek ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis after the envoy caught the cop having an affair with...
Those wishing to see Tiwa Savage and Teebillz back together again as husband and wife may have had their wishes answered after all as the pair...
The troubled capital of Maiduguri in Borno State has been hit again by a suicide bomber on New Year’s Eve. The blast according to an eyewitness,...
Fear has gripped some villages in Rafi local government area of Niger State, after heavily armed gunmen attacked two communities in the area, kidnapping residents, rustling...
Defiant North Korean President Kim Jong-un revealed during his New Year address that his country is in the “final stages” of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile...
